TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the Z(→ ℓ + ℓ −)γ production cross-section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - ATLAS Collaboration
AU - Aad, G
AU - Åkesson, Torsten
AU - Bocchetta, Simona
AU - Bryngemark, Lene
AU - Corrigan, Eric Edward
AU - Doglioni, Caterina
AU - Gregersen, Kristian
AU - Brottmann Hansen, Eva
AU - Hedberg, Vincent
AU - Jarlskog, Göran
AU - Kalderon, Charles
AU - Kellermann, Edgar
AU - Konya, Balazs
AU - Lytken, Else
AU - Mankinen, Katja
AU - Marcon, Caterina
AU - Mjörnmark, Ulf
AU - Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien
AU - Pöttgen, Ruth
AU - Poulsen, Trine
AU - Skorda, Eleni
AU - Smirnova, Oxana
AU - Zwalinski, L.
PY - 2020/3/10
Y1 - 2020/3/10
N2 - The production of a prompt photon in association with a Z boson is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s = 13 TeV. The analysis uses a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC from 2015 to 2018. The production cross-section for the process pp → ℓ+ℓ−γ + X (ℓ = e, μ) is measured within a fiducial phase-space region defined by kinematic requirements on the photon and the leptons, and by isolation requirements on the photon. An experimental precision of 2.9% is achieved for the fiducial cross-section. Differential cross-sections are measured as a function of each of six kinematic variables characterising the ℓ+ℓ−γ system. The data are compared with theoretical predictions based on next-to-leading-order and next-to-next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. The impact of next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections is also considered.
AB - The production of a prompt photon in association with a Z boson is studied in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s = 13 TeV. The analysis uses a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC from 2015 to 2018. The production cross-section for the process pp → ℓ+ℓ−γ + X (ℓ = e, μ) is measured within a fiducial phase-space region defined by kinematic requirements on the photon and the leptons, and by isolation requirements on the photon. An experimental precision of 2.9% is achieved for the fiducial cross-section. Differential cross-sections are measured as a function of each of six kinematic variables characterising the ℓ+ℓ−γ system. The data are compared with theoretical predictions based on next-to-leading-order and next-to-next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. The impact of next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections is also considered.
KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
UR - https://scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081744973&origin=inward&txGid
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)054
DO - 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)054
M3 - Article
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 2020
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 54
ER -